On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: > Hi All, > > Started making some fast progress on this. > > I uploaded the xenserver box[1] to vagrant cloud. This means people can > easily get a xenserver VM by executing vagrant init duffy/xenserver && > vagrant up. > > I adjusted the configuration on the box to allow for multiple xenserver > boxes to be brought up by one vagrant file. In order to allow this I had to > remove the host-only network configuration from the packaged box into an > external script [2]. It can be used as follows: > > config.vm.define "xenserver" do |xenserver| > xenserver.vm.box = "duffy/xenserver" > > xenserver.vm.provision "shell" do |s| > s.path = "xenserver/reset-network.sh" > s.args = ["eth1", "192.168.56.10", "255.255.255.0"] > end > end > > > I created a skeleton for the chef cookbook [3]. At the moment it include > calls to the MySQL, NFS and IPTables gateway recipes with default > attributes specified for the included devcloud.cfg. Along with this I wrote > a systemvm downloading recipe which reads an array of systemvms from the > cookbooks attributes file and downloads/installed them accordingly. It uses > the -t switch to on the cloud-install-sys-tmplt script to avoid querying > the MySQL db for information. > > I added some brief usage documentation too [4] > > > [1] https://github.com/imduffy15/packer-xenserver > [2] > https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/blob/master/MySql_NFS_XenServer/xenserver/reset-network.sh > [3] https://github.com/imduffy15/cookbook_cloudstack > [4] https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/blob/master/README.md
Good work Ian, I hope to test it this week. -sebastien
